During a press conference held on June 10, 2009 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, John Fees, CEO McDermott International, introduced the mPowerTM modular reactor and described its potential for making a positive impact on American job creation, manufacturing strength, and clean energy development.
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The Wall Street Journal has published several letter responses to Bob Metcalfe’s June 24, 2009 opinion piece titled The New Nuclear Revolution: Safe fission power is our future — if regulators allow it. You can find them under the title of It’s Time to Take Another Look at Nuclear Energy. I liked the first two…
Oops – my blog title might have provided a spoiler to the punchline for the below video. Never mind, it is only a minute and a half long, so the there is not much time to build up suspense anyway. However, please watch the video. If you have a blog, consider embedding it; if you…
Bill Gates chose to talk about energy and climate at this year’s TED talks. Here is the video of his talk.
Steve Aplin, of Canadian Energy Issues, wrote an excellent piece titled Industrial strategy and cheap energy: why China is eating, and will keep eating, our lunch that captured my attention. He described how China is increasingly taking advantage of an enormous internal market to stimulate continued economic development that is lifting hundreds of millions of…
There is no doubt that there will be some effort to fight against any new nuclear power plants here in the US. There are people nearing retirement age whose entire adult lives have been spent in the professional battle to slow the development of nuclear fission based power plants. There was an article published in…
There is an excellent and well debated article on Energy Pulse titled Wind Generation’s Performance during the July 2006 California Heat Storm. I encourage you to go read the article and as much of the comment thread as you can. Though it is quite long, there is much of value there and it is a…
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